Tuesday, March 20, 2007

A fabulously moody collection of art from the Royal Art Lodge in Winnipeg... an artist collective that was founded in 1996 by students at the University of Manitoba. Members have included Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, Adrian Williams, Hollie Dzama and Myles Langlois. Currently three original members remain: Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, and Neil Farber. The artists meet regularly on Wednesday evenings to produce collaborative pieces such as collages, drawings, sculptures, and paintings... which is all that is serendipitous, melancholy, witty, sentimental, dark, metaphorical, tongue-in-cheek, and captivating. Their website is chock-full of wonderful, thought-provoking pieces... truly a retreat from the ordinary.